Meletios Koumanis

Life

Born

20 February 1970

Monastic tonsure

1996

Ordained deacon

1996

Ordained priest

2000

Consecrated bishop

5 December 2014

Made metropolitan

17 November 2016

Sees

1. 5 December 2014 – 17 November 2016

   Bishop of Navkratis

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 17 November 2016 – present

   Metropolitan of Carthage

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 5 December 2014 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Paul Tsaousoglou Metropolitan of Glyfada, Elliniko, Voula, Vouliagmeni and Vari, 1943–2019
• Gabriel Raftopoulos Metropolitan of Leontopolis, b. 1957
• Nephon Tsavaris Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1959
• Narkissos Gammoh Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1968

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 14 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Meletios Koumanis Metropolitan of Carthage consecrated 5 December 2014
2. Narkissos Gammoh Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1968 consecrated 1 December 2013
3. Philoumenos Machamre Archbishop of Pella, b. 1970 consecrated 17 March 2013
4. Makarios Maurogiannakis Metropolitan of Ptolemais, b. 1968 consecrated 10 March 2013
5. Maksim Dmitriev Bishop of Yelets and Lebedyansk, b. 1961 consecrated 20 January 2002
6. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
7. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
8. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
9. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
10. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
11. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
12. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
13. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
14. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
15. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 7

• 21 December 2014Neophytus Kongai Metropolitan of Eldoret, b. 1970
• 27 March 2016Nikodemos Boulaxis Bishop of Nitria, b. 1960
• 11 December 2016Agathonicus Nikolaidis Metropolitan of Arusha and Central Tanzania, b. 1964
• 18 December 2016Theodore Dridakes Metropolitan of Brazzaville and Gabon, b. 1966
• 7 October 2017Theokletos Lambrinakos Metropolitan of Stagoi and Meteora, b. 1967
• 17 February 2022Nikodemos Totkas Metropolitan of Nigeria, b. 1975
• 3 March 2024Stephen Soulimiotis Bishop of Hippo, b. 1968

Sources

Also in: Wikidata